HR 2482 Passed in House – NTIA Authorization

This afternoon the House took up  HR 2482, the NTIA Reauthorization Act of 2025, under the suspension of the rules process. After 14 minutes of debate, the House passed the bill by a voice vote. The bill now moves to the Senate.

Last session a similar bill, HR 4510, also passed in the House, but no action was taken on the bill when it reached the Senate. A number of provisions from HR 4510 were not found in HR 2482, so maybe there will be an increased chance of it being considered in Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. As is typical for so many bills introduced, this bill is not politically important enough to take up the time needed for the Senate to consider the bill under the regular order process.

While the whole point of a program authorization bill is for the committee responsible for the oversight of the program to provide direction to the executive agency as to how the program should be carried out, it is often easier to include these relatively small program authorizations in spending bills as the bills are more likely (or at least used to be more likely) to be favorably considered in both bodies.